
Top 37 Phaedra Quotes
#1. I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.
Brad Paisley
#2. There is nothing more defenseless than a naked man.
Phaedra Weldon
#3. I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.
John Britt Daniel
#4. He was very solemn; she wasn't. Phaedra couldn't stop smiling.
Melina Marchetta
#5. Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear
Max Lucado
#7. He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.
Phaedra Patrick
#8. Phaedra's body pulled at the light, testing the softer side of midnight. Hyacinth usually slipped out of bed in the middle of the night, careful to fit her rustle inside Phaedra's dreams.
Naomi Jackson
#9. No, Lucy. Your mother doesn't really love men. They are a symptom of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn't understand that she has to make herself whole.
Patricia Cornwell
#10. Time flies on fickle wings
Seneca.
#12. Phaedra shook her head. If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.
Melina Marchetta
#13. Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
Melina Marchetta
#14. I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.
Casey Wilson
#15. I only know one word. It means friend. I said it in her ear 'Sora. Sora. Sora.'"
"And who taught you this Charynite word for friend?"
"Phaedra of Alonso did. She said it was the prettiest word in Charyn."
And Lucien ached to hear those words.
Melina Marchetta
#16. One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted.
Seneca.
#17. I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
Angela Braly
#18. Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming
Max Barry
#19. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Eve Best
#20. Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour
gone is followed by a worse one.
Seneca.
#21. If you want to keep a secret, never share it.
Seneca.
#22. Children are the anchors of a mother's life. - SOPHOCLES, Phaedra, fragment 612
Jodi Picoult
#23. Schools while their dads are on company assignments, and then have to catch up with their Japanese grade level when their dads get transferred back. Only my dad wasn't on a company assignment, and he wasn't getting transferred
Ruth Ozeki
#24. I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.
Seneca.
#25. Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.
Naomi Jackson
#26. All his thoughts were running riot, like rowdy children, and he wanted them to stop and leave him alone. He
Phaedra Patrick
#27. But there are always some people that you keep in your heart, yes? That you never forget." "How
Phaedra Patrick
#28. You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
Mike Nichols
#30. Phaedra: I wanted to see your face when you came.
Hippolytus: Why?
Phaedra: I'd like to see you lose yourself.
Hippolytus: It's not a pleasant sight.
Phaedra: Why, what do you look like?
Hippolytus: Every other stupid fucker.
Sarah Kane
#31. By sorting out her wardrobe it felt as if he was saying goodbye to her all over again. He was clearing her out of his life. With
Phaedra Patrick
#32. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance. It robbed Phaedra of her breath.
Melina Marchetta
#33. Strange things happen when we stand face to face with our enemy, don't they, Phaedra of Alonso?
Melina Marchetta
#34. You're going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.'
'The mule and I have an agreement.'
'The mule and you have similar traits.
Melina Marchetta
#35. Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian's. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.
But that doesn't mean I love you less.
Melina Marchetta
#36. Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life.
Seneca.
#37. The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr
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